I left before dawn. No name, no number. Just a surgeon's hands tracing my tattoos in the dark and a mouth I already knew I'd be thinking about in a year.
Ten days later I open a protection file and he's looking back at me. Nico Ferraro. The name on the invoice is his father's.
I'm a sniper. I work at distance. I read a threat at eight hundred meters and remove it before anyone knows I was there. Distance is control. Distance is survival. Distance is what I had four feet of when my spotter died. Four feet was the one range I couldn't do anything about.
Nico Ferraro does not do distance.
He gets in my space. He matches my silence and wins. He looks at me like the man from that night is still in here somewhere and he is furious that I won't send him back out.
"You don't get to pretend you don't know me."
I know him. I know the scar on his shoulder. I know the sound he makes. I know that night was the most honest I've been in years, and that is precisely the problem.
One family wants him dead for talking to the police. The other one is his father, who only wants to keep him alive. He is paying my firm to do it, and he will send men of his own the day I stop taking his calls.
My job is to keep him breathing. Not to remember what I've already memorized. Not to close the distance.
Not to stay.
But Nico doesn't let people leave.
And every rule I have ever survived by is a rule about how far away to stand.
Hunted by Him is a one night stand to bodyguard MM romance about a sniper who only works at a distance and a surgeon who refuses to let him keep one.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Ten days later I open a protection file and he's looking back at me. Nico Ferraro. The name on the invoice is his father's.
I'm a sniper. I work at distance. I read a threat at eight hundred meters and remove it before anyone knows I was there. Distance is control. Distance is survival. Distance is what I had four feet of when my spotter died. Four feet was the one range I couldn't do anything about.
Nico Ferraro does not do distance.
He gets in my space. He matches my silence and wins. He looks at me like the man from that night is still in here somewhere and he is furious that I won't send him back out.
"You don't get to pretend you don't know me."
I know him. I know the scar on his shoulder. I know the sound he makes. I know that night was the most honest I've been in years, and that is precisely the problem.
One family wants him dead for talking to the police. The other one is his father, who only wants to keep him alive. He is paying my firm to do it, and he will send men of his own the day I stop taking his calls.
My job is to keep him breathing. Not to remember what I've already memorized. Not to close the distance.
Not to stay.
But Nico doesn't let people leave.
And every rule I have ever survived by is a rule about how far away to stand.
Hunted by Him is a one night stand to bodyguard MM romance about a sniper who only works at a distance and a surgeon who refuses to let him keep one.
Genre: Romantic Suspense